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Adeliza de Meschines, 10901128 (aged 38 years)

Richard's Castle, Shropshire, England.
Name
Adeliza /de Meschines/
Given names
Adeliza
Surname prefix
de
Surname
Meschines
Family with parents
father
10701129
Birth: 1070 24 19 Briquessart, Calvados, Normandy, France
Death: January 1129Chester, Cheshire, England
mother
Marriage Marriage1090
1 year
herself
Richard's Castle, Shropshire, England.
10901128
Birth: 1090 20 20 Hertford, Hertfordshire, England
Death: 1128Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
8 years
younger sister
1097
Birth: 1097 27 27 Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy, France
Death:
3 years
younger brother
10991153
Birth: 1099 29 29 Ranville, Calvados, Normandy, France
Death: 16 December 1153Chester, Cheshire, England
2 years
younger brother
11001132
Birth: 1100 30 30 Ranville, Calvados, Normandy, France
Death: 1132Craven, Yorkshire, England
3 years
younger sister
Family with Walter Scrope
husband
Richard's Castle, Shropshire, England.
10801105
Birth: 1080 24 Richard's Castle, Shropshire, England
Death: 1105Castle Combe, Wiltshire, England
herself
Richard's Castle, Shropshire, England.
10901128
Birth: 1090 20 20 Hertford, Hertfordshire, England
Death: 1128Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
Marriage Marriage1102Richard's Castle, Shropshire, England
2 years
son
Richard's Castle, Shropshire, England.
11031149
Birth: 1103 23 13 Richard's Castle, Shropshire, England
Death: 1149Flotmanby, Yorkshire, England
3 years
son
Richard's Castle, Shropshire, England.
1105
Birth: 1105 25 15 Richard's Castle, Shropshire, England
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Address: Château Guernon, Ranville, Calvados, Normandy, France.
Birth of a brother
Address: Château Guernon, Ranville, Calvados, Normandy, France.
Marriage
Birth of a sister
Birth of a son
Birth of a son
Death of a husband
Death of a paternal grandmother
Death of a sister
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Address: Church of St Werburgh, Chester, Cheshire, England.
Death
Last change
7 June 201505:06:12
Author of last change: Danny
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Richard's Castle, Shropshire, England.
Richard's Castle, Shropshire, England.
Note: Richard's Castle is a village, castle and two civil parishes on the border of the counties of Herefordshire and Shropshire in England.

Richard's Castle is a village, castle and two civil parishes on the border of the counties of Herefordshire and Shropshire in England.

The Castle

Today the fortress is reduced mainly to its earthworks and foundations. A polygonal keep stood on the high motte or mound. This was reached possibly via a semi-circular barbican. The bailey wall still stands twenty feet high in places and there are remains of several towers and an early gatehouse around the perimeter. There, earthwork remains of an outer ward enclosing the church (St Bartholomew's) and a borough defence.

History

Richard Fitz Scrob (or Fitz Scrope) was a Norman knight granted lands by the Saxon King Edward the Confessor before the Norman Conquest, in Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire as recorded in the Domesday Book. He built Richard's Castle before 1051. The castle was a motte-and-bailey style construction, one of only three or four castles of this type built before the Norman conquest. Most were built after the conquest. Richard was last mentioned in 1067. His castle passed to his son, Osbern Fitz Richard, who married Nesta, the daughter of King Gruffydd ap Llywelyn of Wales.

Osbern died around 1137 and was succeeded by his grandson, Osbern Fitz Hugh (married to a sister of Rosamond Clifford), who died in 1187. Richard's Castle then passed to his marital brother-in-law, Hugh de Say, who died in 1190, leaving the barony to his son, another Hugh Say. Thus the castle passed out of the line of descent of Richard Fitz Scrob. In 1196 this Hugh fought at the battle at New Radnor and was probably killed there, his castles eventually passing to Robert de Mortimer of Attleborough. In 1264 his son, Hugh Mortimer, was forced to surrender himself and Richard's Castle to Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester. His grandson, the last Hugh Mortimer of Richard's Castle, was poisoned to death by his wife in 1304. The castle then passed to the Talbots, through Richard Talbot's marriage to Joan Mortimer. On 3 December 1329, Joan late the wife of Richard Thalebot, had noted in the Patent Rolls that she planned to leave Richard's Castle to John de Wotton, chaplain, and William Balle of Underlith, in fee simple. The Talbots were still living there in the late 14th century. By the 16th century it was in ruins.